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>First Speaker of the New Republic.
Fingers crossed.
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>They are arguably deriving momentary pleasure from such vile deeds.
NOW… comes the BIG debate question that 10/10 would keep the old dudes busy.
Is it right to define happiness and virtue by one's OWN standard? They've already messed up ignoring the FACT that a person will take pleasure in watching the life go from another's eyes. IS it right to create an entire definition of happiness and virtue and what is right and good…to define what someone else was meant to be? We don't KNOW what we were meant to be. Do we have a right to decide for someone else. We don't like their evil deeds, they dislike our "goodness"…right?
Stay with me here….
If one goes with the God/creation myth then god is quite literally an asshole. Knows all sees all, past future and present, has a self awareness to be LONELY and need WORSHIPING…so knowing it is doomed to FAIL it creates an entire species to worship it but it has to destroy them over and over…induce fear in them to get any adoration….
the idea that I could decide what someone else's standard for virtue and happiness would be…that by VIRTUE one attains happiness…..and forgot to define virtue by any means but his own thinking.
In fact the entire debate was between people who believed a version of virtue that was true for THEM.
There is literally ZERO way to align what the mythic worshiped god DID, with what is right and good. You can't on one hand claim the nature of god is to know all…Alpha and Omega…etc…and on the other hand turn around and say—but yeah he gave you a chance…..No asshole you said..oh hey this looks like fun, and did it anyway!
What if god is a being/energy in perfect balance with itself? Both GOOD an evil…that exists in a state of absolute neutrality–the Logos? IF we are in a god's "image" it would seem more likely we are an image of that being. Capable of both great good and great evil, learning how to be.
I've often pondered the concept of Karma and I teach a slightly different angle to people struggling with OMG EVIL. I ask them to imagine a endless life of singing praises to "god" just all rainbows and unicorns….I'm usually inducing an altered state of consciousness during this time. It isn't long before they snap and say…this is BORING…..so maybe evil is here to challenge us, give us something to push back against, to grow or not grow from. In that case those that perform the "duty of evil" for US…are actually helping us do better?
I would SO love a go at Eratosthenes over this…and Socrates!
(Disclaimer: I am not a religious person…meaning…yeah, no, that god is a total fucking asshole. I thought so when I got carried out of church when I was 6 for screaming at the pastor it was unfair to send cavemen to hell…the sermon was on all who never knew jesus are in hell.)